WCBS Radio profiles Regina and Etched in Sand, noting: “Regina Calcaterra Hopes Memoir Gives Voice To Disadvantaged Kids.” Read and hear the report.
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Regina appeared on CBS’ “The Couch” program to discuss Etched in Sand, and her challenged childhood.
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One of Regina’s goals in writing Etched in Sand was to raise awareness of the challenges faced by older foster children, that they are adoptable and of You Gotta Believe! Newsweek/Daily Beast has already helped with this goal. Read here about The Case for Older Foster Children.
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SUMMARY Regina Calcaterra’s New York Times best-selling memoir, Etched in Sand, (HarperCollins, 2013) is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and triumph. Regina Calcaterra is a law partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings persevered an abusive and
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Publishers Weekly “Courageous…Fascinating…Unforgettable” This true story of a woman surviving domestic abuse as a child, emancipating herself as a teenager, and then becoming a successful attorney is courageous and fascinating, written with a descriptive restraint that recalls moments of tragedy and perseverance with simplicity and subtlety. Her story begins with an account of life among
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ETCHED IN SAND A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island By Regina Calcaterra Pub Date: Aug. 6th, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-06-221883-4 Publisher: Morrow/HarperCollins A prominent New York attorney’s unsparing account of how she and her four siblings survived extreme abuse and neglect at the hands of their mentally ill mother. Cookie was
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Newsday, Sunday March 17, 2013 1:21 PM By Dan Janison Lawyer Regina Calcaterra, of New Suffolk, who serves these days as director of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Moreland Act commission on utility disaster response, has penned a harrowing personal memoir, “Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an
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Highlights of Pre-Release Reviews KIRKUS REVIEWS: Kirkus Reviews: RECOMMENDED “Riveting reading from start to finish.” “Calcaterra narrates her story in the present tense, which adds a painful immediacy and urgency to an already gut-wrenching account. Yet never once does she flinch from the terrible truths with which she has lived and so courageously reveals here.”
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Samantha Garvey is Finally Home NEWSDAY January 28, 2012 by KEITH HERBERT AND SARAH CRICHTON Intel competition semifinalist Samantha Garvey has a home again. Less than a month after she and her family had to relocate to a homeless shelter, Garvey moved Saturday into a new home in Bay Shore. At a ceremony in front
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Gerry Ferraro’s last book was written as a testament to her mother Antonetta Ferraro. Gerry chronicles the struggles and sacrifices that her Italian immigrant mother suffered to
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